Habenaria dalzielii Summerh. 1932 SECION Bilabrella

TYPE Collection sheet and drawing by Summerhayes and conserved by Kew Science Website

Common Name Dalziel's Habenaria [English Botanist Original Collector of Species 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Nigeria and Sierra Leone in swamps as a large sized, hot growing terrestrial with a globose, glabrous tuber giving rise to an erect stem carrying 8, the lower 4 linear and acute basally sheathed, the upper 4 decreasing in size leaves and turnng into bracts that blooms in the spring on an errect, terminal, 5.2 to 6.4" [13 to 16 cm] long, 1.6 to 2" [in diameter, laxly many flowered inflorescence with lanceoalte, acuminate, shorter thna the pedicel floral bracts

Synonyms Bilabrella dalzielii (Summerh.) Szlach. & Kras 2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1932: 339 Summerhayes 1932

AOS Bulletin Vol 32 # 10 1963 ;

Richardiana 9: 158 Szlach. & Kras 2009 as Bilabrella dalzielii

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